The Cell Phone Crisis

My family has one of those family plans with Verizon. We aren't real "phone users". We mostly call each other with our cell phones but that doesn't count towards minutes. Only once did we use over 800 minutes in one month between the 4 lines. It was the month we moved up to KC. So if we are not bigtime phone users, why do I feel so lost without my cell phone? Mr. Daphnewood was helping a nurse roll a patient to a different floor when his cell phone became dislodged from his belt and fell inbetween the cracks of the elevator and plummeted 6 floors down. Bye-bye phone. He was eligible for a free upgrade anyway so I ordered it online ( that way he can keep his same Houston area code and number ) but it hasn't arrived yet. He needs a cell phone at work so he is using mine. Whaaaah!

I feel so primitive having such territorial feelings about my cell phone. Like I decided I wanted to call Leslie but couldn't since he had my phone. I guess I could have used the house phone but that would long distance. I wanted to call my father but couldn't (his number is programmed into my phone). I wanted to call my friend Brinda in Houston. Again, long distance AND her number is in my phone. Why this sudden urge to use the cell phone? Also, my cell phone is my watch. I have the kind with a clock on the face. Yesterday I was at the hospital ALL DAY and didn't have a watch to see just how freakin long the doctor was making me and poor M-Boy wait. Of course the time seemed doubled without having a clock. I sure hope Mr. Daphnewood's new phone arrives today. It was shipped FEDEX on monday. It better be here or some heads are going to roll.